Hi, On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: > 4. I'm thinking of dropping the i386 buildbot workers (debian and ubuntu). > Ubuntu almost dropped > 32bit support recently, but after some pushback from the Steam (gaming) and > Wine 32bit (windows > compatibility layer on Linux) they reversed the decision. It will reduce > our 10 virtualised buildbot workers > running on 1 host to 5 only. We very regularly install Linux on fairly old > laptops for students from all over Africa. > We've not seen a 32bit laptop in 2019. Maybe 1 or 2 in 2018 and fewer than > 3 in 2017! > I'd be interested in how many 32bit devices show up at > https://wiki.sagemath.org/days102 > How many times were 32bit vs 64bit downloaded from the mirrors? Is this > info available? > Thoughts?
I am still releasing 32bit live USB for Sage, so it is good if this architecture is still officially supported. It helps maintining some pressure on the code quality, and avoid 64bit-specific hardcoded stuff. Ciao, Thierry > Regards, > Jan > > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/CAAg%3Dp_1N_Ewiw9pLQWPVV%2B_32uPYE3gx4eO1X%2BY_eSFnLh0yXA%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/20190703101143.bfsftfmyjcqq34k4%40metelu.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
